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UAV for Civil Protection and multi usage

UAV: HERO20FF: The New Generation Recoverable Low-Cost UAS/UAV for Forest Fires Management delivers a recoverable low-cost tube launched micro-UAV platform to accurately estimate the wind-field along an erupted forest fire. The UAV is managed using a complete navigation system, comprising of both hardware and software modules, including both the airborne autopilot as well as complete ground station mission planning and monitoring software utilizing a bi-directional datalink for telemetry and control. The Hero20FF desktop application maps the real-time wind field measurements.

AvionTek GmbH was established in 2009 in Bavaria, Germany, as spin-off of the ESA-BIC Bavaria Aviation Incubator. The company was established as part of a series of nationally and internationally funded research and technological development (RTD) projects and has received awards from the European Commission. Today it is an independent SME (small / medium-sized enterprise) that owns all the rights (IPR and licenses) of all its products and industry solutions.